Category: Okanagan Crush Pad

by mywinepal • January 11, 2019 • Comments Off on A Sneak Peek at the Wines of the International Wine Festival 2019

The Vancouver International Wine Festival 2019 starts February 23. A big part of the festival is attending the International Festival Tasting Room that has 160 wineries attending, pouring a total of 1450 wines. How do you know which wineries you…

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by mywinepal • May 19, 2018 • Comments Off on The Low Down on BC’s 2017 Vintage

From BC’s winemakers, the consensus seems to be that 2017 was a more normal growing season compared to the two previous seasons. Although there were horrible wildfires, the fires occurred in early summer, not later in the summer when veraison…

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by mywinepal • August 18, 2015 • Comments Off on The Road to Organic for Okanagan Crush Pad

I first met owners Chrstine Coletta and Steve Lornie in May 2011, when they were unveiling the concrete eggs they acquired to ferment a line of their wines at Okanagan Crush Pad (OCP). Jump forward 4 years, and you will…

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by mywinepal • October 6, 2014 • Comments Off on Getting Wild with Haywire Canyonview Chardonnay

Haywire Canyonview Chardonnay 2012 is quite different from any other Okanagan Chardonnay that I can remember tasting. I had to nose it and taste it several times. What was it that this wine in the glass was telling me? The…

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by mywinepal • April 15, 2014 • Comments Off on B.S. or Haywire: Who is My Pick for Better Rose?

A friendly competition never hurt anyone. Well maybe egos. Today’s friendly competition is between Okanagan Crush Pad’s Haywire Rose 2011 and Bartier Scholefield (BS) Rose 2011. Both wines are produced from Gamay Noir grapes grown from the same vineyard in…

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by mywinepal • March 25, 2014 • Comments Off on A Tasty New Red, White, and Rose Release for Bartier Scholefield

Since Bartier Scholefield started producing their wines in 2011, in the Okanagan, BC, I have been fortunate to try them and write about them for you. They have been keeping to their “Wine As Narrative“, telling us a story about…

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by mywinepal • December 20, 2013 • Comments Off on Singing a Unique Song about Wine?

Do you like a consistent quality wine with classic flavours and aromas? Should it matter if the Cabernet Sauvignon you drink comes from Napa Valley or Stellenbosch, South Africa? Should the terroir; the soil, microbes, worms, indigenous yeasts, plus the…

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by mywinepal • July 15, 2013 • Comments Off on Celebrating OWEN Cabernet Franc and the BCHF

This is the second year of the Wine Campus at Okanagan Crush Pad. The wine campus is a program to foster the education of professionals in the wine industry. Okanagan Crush Pad makes an annual donation of $5,000 to the…

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by mywinepal • April 24, 2013 • Comments Off on The Winners of Vancouver Magazine 24th Annual Restaurant Awards

Starting a restaurant is hard. Running a restaurant is hard. Whether you are the owner, chef, wait staff, or any combination of these, you are dedicated, you love food, and what you do. This week was the Vancouver Magazine 24th…

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Bartier Scholefield‘s slogan is “Wine is Narrative“, which I agree it is, at least maybe for boutique wineries, sourcing grapes from a small region. In my previous article, BC Has a Wine Story, I talked about the story that wine…